Arbours Association Archive

Reference number	ARBOURS
Level of description	Collection
Date(s)	1970-2005
Extent and medium	130 boxes approx
Category	Residential
Scope and content	Papers of the Arbours Association including administrative papers, selected journals and materials relating to the Crisis Centre.
History	The Arbours Association is a therapeutic community and organisation operating in North London. It was established in 1970 by Dr Joseph Berke and Morton Schatzman in Muswell Hill, the name drawing on the Hebrew text 'and he shall build arbours over them'. Through establishing a therapeutic community in Muswell Hill, Berke and Schatzman aimed to provide a non-institutional alternative to psychiatric treatment for individuals with emotional, psychological and social difficulties. The residential home accommodated up to eight residents aiming for an even balance of men and women within the community. By the twenty-first century the Association had added to the therapeutic community at Muswell Hill by providing psychotherapy services and training programmes from their head office in Hornsey, North London.
Name of creator(s)	Arbours Association
Access status	OPEN
Language	ENG

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